Clergy; Chaplains; War; Military life; Military medicine; Campaigns & battles; Hospital ships; Religion; Reunions; Reformatories
Corkhill was a Methodist minister, instrumental in the founding of Iowa Wesleyan College and the reformatories in Mitchellville and Eldora, Iowa. Governor Samuel Kirkwood commissioned this account of Corkhill's experiences as a chaplain for the...
Serena Stier is a mystery writer and co-teaches a course in art, law, and ethics at the University of Iowa. She is also a psychologist, lawyer, and mediator, and the grandmother of four terrific grandsons. She is in her sixties but wrote this poem...